History BlueAndOrangeMorality / WesternAnimation

* Chaos from ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'' thought in terms of "predictable" and "unpredictable", and above all, fun for him.

* ''Franchise/Ben10'''s [[NeverMessWithGranny grandmother]] Verdona is a [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] EnergyBeing who [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned her family]] the second her children came of age because none of them inherited her powers, and attempted to destroy Gwen's physical body to awaken her full potential. She seems to see nothing wrong with all of this and regards attacking her own grandchildren as a fun game.

* [[spoiler:The Collector]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is [[spoiler: an ''immensely'' powerful RealityWarper [[GooGooGodlike with the mind of a very young child]], i.e. effectively [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] but not actively malicious. He isn't so much evil as good and evil appear to be totally alien concepts to them; rather his values system seems to be based on what is fun and what is boring. They just want to play, but at the same time, he doesn't realize that hurting or killing people is wrong, like a baby wouldn't understand why its parents would be angry if it deliberately broke its toys. The only moral standard he appears to have is that promises [[IGaveMyWord must be kept]]; you can get them to do what you want by promising to reward him (usually by playing with him), but if you lie to them or break a pinkie swear, they will be ''very'' angry.]]

** Prismo is a NiceGuy who, for completely unspecified reasons, is also a JackassGenie who places "monkey's paw"-esque twists on wishes unless you're really specific. He even warns Jake that entire worlds could inadvertently be erased if one doesn't word their wish well enough, and in the end just outright tells Jake the wish he needs to make in order to make everything well again without something backfiring. It's never made clear why he clearly knows right from wrong but still delves out terrible consequences to wish-makers who don't deserve it.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Poison Ivy establishes herself as this in her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison first appearance]]. Treating plants with tender, motherly kindness but [[MisanthropeSupreme viewing people as a cancer]] that must exterminated. [[DoesNotLikeMen Men in particular]] being there solely to feed her [[TheVamp seductive]] and sadistic appetites.
* Dinobot in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': "I have honour, but it is PREDACON honour!" That seems to mean that if you don't trust your leader's competence, you usurp them; if said leader is unable to prevent this, that leader isn't fit to command. If the predacon fails to usurp the leader clearly ''they'' are/were unfit to command. So, basically, [[Franchise/StarWars Sith Lords]].

** The Apex cult in season 3 exemplifies some these problems, as they have concluded that making your number go up makes you go stronger, making it go down makes you weaker, and you die when it hits 0. And since they've noticed by observation that numbers go up when you're an asshole and down when you're nice, they've concluded that VirtueIsWeakness. The Apex's founder Grace disbands the cult when she realizes that this is based on a false premise (that she originally made up so she could pretend she knew how the train worked), [[spoiler:while her friend Simon ends up the BigBad because he stuck to the Apex philosophy 'till the end.]]

** None of [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Flip]]'s actions have any discernable logic or reason to them whatsoever and are primarily based on whatever crosses his mind at that very moment. He'll push buttons, pull levers and [[TheGadfly screw with basically everyone]].

** Transdimensional being known as Fart reveals before the end [[spoiler:that carbon-based life forms are like a disease to his species and that they plan to exterminate them]] appealing to Morty's own moral code for protecting life above everything else.

* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': While Entrapta is generally a nice person, her moral compass is otherwise tied to her tendency to do things ForScience, which means she has no problem working for the Horde as long as they give her stuff to work with. She was also unfazed by seeing Catra getting sent out on what was essentially a suicide mission and the fact that her lab partner [[spoiler:took part in intergalactic conquest]].

** While the family show that they do have a conscience, they don’t have much of a problem with [[spoiler:the Pupa eventually reaching its final form, destroying and rebuilding the planet, which... would be just a little step above the shitstorms they usually cause.]]

* [[spoiler:Peridot]] in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is shown to view right and wrong in terms of the greater good of the Gem Empire, at one point describing an image of a hollowed-out Earth that couldn't possibly sustain life as "beautiful" because of how much it would have helped the Diamond Authority, compared to Earth's current situation of [[spoiler:having a gargantuan fusion abomination growing inside it, which wouldn't really benefit anyone]]; the only thing higher than this is her own survival. She also has trouble grasping the concept of romantic affection, creating a shipping grid for a TV show based on which pairing would gain the best tactical advantages, and puts so much stock in logic and reason that [[spoiler:she rebels upon learning that her superior is in fact motivated largely by spite]], despite not being particularly rational herself in many situations.
** Gems in general seem to have this problem, being a non-organic species that are functionally immortal. The Diamond Authority and Gems loyal to them believed that their own needs and the needs of the empire were the only ones of any importance, and that organic life was beneath them and only worthwhile as a sign of a planet that could be colonized and harvested to make more Gems. They literally see no point in allowing organic sentient life to exist. Even the Crystal Gems, who do value organic life, originally only see humans in a more conservationist mindset as a human would see an endangered species of animal. It takes a long time for Rose Quartz and the other Crystal Gems to learn that humanity does have needs and desires beyond simply continuing their own physical existence.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Cartman often comes off as having this whenever actually decides to do something unselfish or even heroic. In the span of a few episodes, he can go from getting revenge on a bully by indirectly killing his parents, then tricking him into eating chili made out of their remains, to taking on UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden in the style of a WarTimeCartoon.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Poison Ivy establishes herself as this in her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison first appearance]]. Treating plants with tender, motherly kindness but [[MisanthropeSupreme viewing people as a cancer that must be painfully exterminated]]. [[DoesntLikeMen Men in particular]] being there solely to feed her [[TheVamp seductive]] and sadistic appetites.

** Prismo is a NiceGuy who, for completely unspecified reasons, also a JackassGenie who places "monkey's paw"-esque twists on wishes unless you're really specific. He even warns Jake that entire worlds could inadvertently be erased if one doesn't word their wish well enough, and in the end just outright tells Jake the wish he needs to make in order to make everything well again without something backfiring. It's never made clear why he clearly knows right from wrong but still delves out terrible consequences to wish-makers who don't deserve it.

* The titular lovable ManChild of ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'' operates on a ''very'' skewed honor code and set of morals. He's willing to do just about ''anything'' in his pursuit of revenge but when it comes to the revenge itself he won't go farther than what he feels is deserved, such as hunting a werewolf who scratched his car so he can merely key the ''werewolf's car'', or halting his vengeance against a wild west theme park that "cheated him out of $20" after he felt the things he did trying to get said vengeance (such as sticking someone up and having a QuickDraw with the corrupt sheriff) was well worth the money he spent.

** The Changelings might be this, depending on whether they merely [[EmotionEater feed on love]] as a food source or if they exploit ThePowerOfLove to make themselves more powerful. If the former, their treatment of the ponies to them would be equivalent to cultivating livestock. Though in the Season 6 finale [[spoiler: it's discovered that the Changelings can sustain themselves by sharing love between them and other beings without sucking it out. [[MoralEventHorizon Queen Chrysalis was simply lying to her subjects that they were only able suck love out in order to fuel her reign of terror]]]].

* [[spoiler:The Collector]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is [[spoiler: an ''immensely'' powerful RealityWarper [[GooGooGodlike with the mind of a very young child]], i.e. effectively [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] but not actively malicious. He isn't so much evil as good and evil appear to be totally alien concepts to them; rather his values system seems to be based on what is fun and what is boring. They just want to play, but at the same time he doesn't realize that hurting or killing people is wrong, like a baby wouldn't understand why its parents would be angry if it deliberately broke its toys. The only moral standard he appears to have is that promises [[IGaveMyWord must be kept]]; you can get them to do what you want by promising to reward him (usually by playing with him), but if you lie to them or break a pinkie swear, they will be ''very'' angry.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' is basically built around this trope, consistently contrasting straightforward morality of Morty with peculiar moralities of alien species.

** Abradolf Lincler is a failed experiment of Rick to create a morally neutral super leader by combining DNA of Adolf Hitler and Abraham Lincoln. The result is an extremely morally confused and ambiguous TorturedMonster.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Cartman often comes off as having this whenever actually decides to do something unselfish or even heroic. In the span of a few episodes, he can go from getting revenge on a bully by indirectly killing his parents, then tricking him into eating chili made out their remains, to taking on UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden in the style of a WarTimeCartoon.

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--->'''Morty''': Well, Summer, maybe people that create things aren't concerned with your delicate sensibilities, you know? Maybe the species that communicate with each other through the filter of your comfort are less evolved than the ones that just communicate! Maybe your problems are your own to deal with, and maybe the public giving a shit about your feelings is a one-way ticket to extinction!
--->'''Rick''': Jeez, Morty. I take it Catherine Hefflefinger hasn't texted you back yet.
--->'''Morty''': (sullenly) I don't wanna talk about it...

* [[spoiler:The Collector]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' basically has the mind of a very young child, i.e. effectively [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] but not actively malicious. He isn't so much evil as good and evil appear to be totally alien concepts to them; rather his values system seems to be based on what is fun and what is boring. They just want to play, but at the same time he doesn't realize that hurting or killing people is wrong, like a baby wouldn't understand why it's parents would be angry if it deliberately broke it's toys. The only moral standard he appears to have is that promises [[IGaveMyWord must be kept]]; you can get them to do what you want by promising to reward him, but if you break a promise or lie they will be very angry.

** Primso is a NiceGuy who, for completely unspecified reasons, also a JackassGenie who places "monkey's paw"-esque twists on wishes unless you're really specific. He even warns Jake that entire worlds could inadvertently be erased if one doesn't word their wish well enough, and in the end just outright tells Jake the wish he needs to make in order to make everything well again without something backfiring. It's never made clear why he clearly knows right from wrong but still delves out terrible consequences to wish-makers who don't deserve it.

* [[spoiler:The Collector]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' basically has the mind of a very young child, i.e. effectively [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] but not actively malicious. He isn't so much evil as good and evil appear to be totally alien concepts to them; rather his values system seems to be based on what is fun and what is boring. They just want to play, but at the same time he doesn't realise that hurting or killing people is wrong, like a baby wouldn't understand why it's parents would be angry if it deliberately broke it's toys. The only moral standard he appears to have is that promises [[IGaveMyWord must be kept]]; you can get the to do what you want by promising to reward him, but if you break a promise or lie they will be very angry.

* [[spoiler:The Collector]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' basically has the mind of a very young child, i.e. effectively [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] but not actively malicious. It isn't so much evil as good and evil appear to be totally alien concepts to it; rather it's values system seems to be based on what is fun and what is boring. It just wants to play, but at the same time it doesn't realise that hurting or killing people is wrong, like a baby wouldn't understand why it's parents would be angry if it deliberately broke it's toys. The only moral standard it appears to have is that promises [[IGaveMyWord must be kept]]; you can get it to do what you want by promising to reward it, but if you break a promise or lie it will be very angry.